QNL Manuscript HC.MS.00315: A Digital Copy of Stories of the Prophets

Qatar National Library provides a 2.0 GB high-resolution digital master of manuscript HC.MS.00315 from its Heritage Collection. The manuscript is titled 'كتاب عن قصص الأنبياء' (Book of Stories of the Prophets). The dataset was last updated on June 3, 2026, and is released under a CC0 1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Train optical character recognition (OCR) models based on high-resolution scans of historical Arabic script.
• Analyze the calligraphy and artistic style of Islamic manuscripts based on the digital images.
• Conduct textual analysis of stories of the prophets based on the manuscript's content.
• Support digital preservation and archival research based on the master copy from a heritage collection.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy suitable for detailed visual analysis.
• Released under a permissive CC0 1.0 public domain license.
• Directly sourced from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection, providing authoritative provenance.
• File size of 2.0 GB suggests a detailed, high-quality scan.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The specific number of pages or images within the 2.0 GB archive is unknown.

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection, manuscript HC.MS.00315.

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript to create a high-resolution master copy.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-03 08:02:19; freshness should be verified.